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Coming to Life
2024-2025
Oil on Board
36" x 49" x 0.5"
91.44 cm x 124.46 cm x 1.27 cm
'Coming to Life' confronts the viewer with the emotional duality of structure and chaos. In the background is stark vertical forms in black, white, and gray to evoke confinement - walls, bars, or the mental architecture of repression. These rigid elements symbolize control, detachment, and the cold geometry of order.
In contrast, the foreground pulses with life: serpentine, worm-like forms in red, black, grey and white lay across the surface. These movements represent the emergence of raw emotion - anger, grief, despair - invading the structured self. The dominate red shapes suggest vitality, violence, or even blood, asserting their presence against the grid of suppression. Their movement disrupts the balance, reflecting how inner turmoil demands to be seen, to be felt.
The painting is both a metaphor for emotion upheaval and a visual dialogue between containment and release - between the silent architecture of pain and the vibrant persistence of the human spirit.
